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Earl Pomeroy: “As a Member of this body, all too often, I have seen debates involve pressing problems and yet no real solutions, no…”

On the recordSeptember 12, 1995
As a Member of this body, all too often, I have seen debates involve pressing problems and yet no real solutions, no meaningful answers. I am dumbfounded at this debate today, because we are dealing with no meaningful problem, and certainly just a sham of a solution. Mr. Chairman, I have 3 minutes left, and I would yield to any Member of the majority side in support of this bill that can show me in the interpretive bulletin where the language is that would diminish in any way, in any way, once scintilla, one little bit, the standards of risk or standards of return that would jeopardize the pension funds in the way that have been outlined.
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Earl Pomeroy
North Dakota

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Criticizing a bill related to pension fund standards during a House floor debate.

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